Pioneers Rest Cemetery
Pioneers Rest Cemetery was created in 1850, a year after the military outpost known as Fort Worth was established on a bluff overlooking the confluence of the Clear and West Forks of the Trinity River. It served as the fort’s primary burial ground and then the city’s, until 1879 when other cemeteries were established in the city. However, burials continued at Pioneers Rest and it remained the cemetery of choice for many early Fort Worth residents and their descendants. Pioneers Rest Cemetery's grave markers reflect mid-19th to early 20th-century sentiments regarding death and mourning through their funerary motifs and Gothic, Egyptian, Classical Revival, and Rustic designs. The cemetery is approximately seven acres. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
Links to Burials at Pioneers Rest
1853-1882
1817-1853
1846-1928
1841-1880.
1872-1934
1869-1872
1810-1883
1921-1945
1849-1907
1862-1936
1911-1952
1828-1885
1851-1931
1883-1950
1861-1939
1888-1944
1856-1940
1796-1858
1848-1894
1844-1922